Document 2/154/32 (Balm. Lib., no. 67)
- Description
- Pope Nicholas IV writes to the bishop of Dunblane on behalf of Balmerino Abbey who told him that some clerks and personae, as much regular as secular, and some earls, barons, nobles, knights and other laymen of the communities and dioceses of Saint Andrews and Brechin, who hold and possess fields, houses, villae, granges, meadows, forests, mills, lands, property and other immovable goods from the monastery, under annual censures or renders, are not arranging to present the censures and renders to the abbot and convent. On the account the fact that this threatens to be no small detriment to the abbot and convent, the abbot and convent humbly beseeched the pope so that he could deem to provide them with a suitable remedy. The pope mandates the bishop, by papal charter, that he should rebuke the clerks, earls, barons, nobles, knights and laity by ecclesiastical censure, who should honestly present the censure or returns to the abbot and convent, lest the bishop should pronounce a sentence of excommunication or interdict in the lands of the earls, barons, knights, and nobles.
- Firm date
- 28 May 1291
- Dating Notes
- five days before the first day of June in the fourth year of Nicholas IV’s pontificate
- Place date (modern)
- Orvieto
- Place date (document)
- Urbem veterem
- Related Place
- Orvieto
- Source for Data Entry
- Balmerino Liber, no. 67
- Trad. ID
- Balm. Lib., no. 67
- Calendar number
- 2/154/32
- Charter type
- Papal letter
- Language
- Latin